The Yellow Fairy Book, The Steadfast Tin-soldier, sentence 1

There were once upon a time five-and twenty tin-soldiers--all brothers, as they were made out of the same old tin spoon.

What happens: be, make out · To what, where: brothers, same old tin spoon

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Steadfast Tin-soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 were	expl
2	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 were	advmod
4	upon	upon	ADP	_	6 time	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 time	det
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 were	obl
7	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 time	nmod
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 five	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 soldiers	cc
10	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 soldiers	nummod
11	tin	tin	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 soldiers	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 tin	punct
13	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 time	conj
14	--	--	PUNCT	_	16 brothers	punct
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 brothers	det
16	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 soldiers	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 made	punct
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 made	mark
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 made	nsubj
20	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 made	aux:pass
21	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 were	advcl
22	out	out	ADP	_	28 spoon	case
23	of	of	ADP	_	28 spoon	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 spoon	det
25	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 spoon	amod
26	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 spoon	amod
27	tin	tin	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 spoon	compound
28	spoon	spoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 made	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 were	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past				there	time	once property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	make out	past · passive		brothers = brother		the same old tin spoon			tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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